Benchmarking Approaches
Processing a benchmark often means investing a lot of time in getting relevant data and determining the best practices. What approaches do you use to get data? Most used systems are:
- Custom-made benchmarking system with online data delivery to...

Upgrade to ISO9001:2015 from ISO9001:2008
I own a ISO 9001:2008 company and want to upgrade it from 9001:2008 to 9001:2015. I need to do an internal audit for it. I want to know how can I upgrade my ISO certification and what new modules have been added into it. And how can I manage these ne...

Benchmarking Websites
In the past I had access to PwC's globalbestpractices.com, a product no longer offered by PwC.
They provided benchmarking reports using an exchange of information basis. Clients who participate in one of the benchmarking survey tools received re...

Benchmarking Notes of Caution
1. Be sure apples are being benchmarked with apples only, and not with oranges. Believe me this is not an easy task.
2. Products are benchmarked based on their features having perceived utilities by the end beneficiary, which may not be the same...

Benchmarking for Monopolies?
Reading through the article and the reactions I wonder what benefits a monopoly industry could achieve from benchmarking! Especially where a monopoly is not yet exposed to international competetion, unless of course forced by legislation....

Benchmarking is AIMED at improving the processes of an organization. It aims to achieve maxim...

Benchmarking is One Source of Progress
Benchmarking seems to be one source of progress, it is a vision of the way to act to become the best one.
But it is always the use that the peoples do with the tools, desire of change? Desire of progress for what? With whom and why?...

IT Process Cycle Efficiency Benchmark
Does any one have an idea for the benchmark 'Process Cycle Efficiency in IT Processes' (specifically the ITIL change management process). Thanks for your comment!...

Benchmarking Benefits
From my experience and study, I found additional to the mentioned benefits the following list of benchmarking advantages:
1. Define the price per unit of the product / service.
2. Use results to improve your organization strategy.

Benchmark in Value Chain Analysis
Benchmarking is a framework based on recommendations from the findings. This is a tool that can help to evaluate the action plan from time to an other. By benchmarking, you can know whether an institution is stagnant or dynamic....

The Role of Benchmarking in Production vs. Quality
I'm in charge of both production and quality in my company. Given that those two functions are usually in collision, how can benchmarking help me to manage both functions efficiently without antagonism?...

Benchmarking in Sailing
I'm trying to do benchmarking in sailing, it's the first time that my country is working in this project therefore I need some useful information in this matter. Is there anybody who can help me?...

Benchmarking is a Reference Point
The way I see it, benchmarking is a reference point that is used as a comparison to everything that follows. If there is a new process in manufacturing and an audit it to be administered, then the first one becomes the benchmark to where all others a...

Best Practices or Next Practices?C.K. Prahalad says best practices take companies only so far. At best they allow firms to catch up with their competitors, but it will not make them market leaders. Prahalad, who is obviously not the biggest fan of benchmarking, advises to loo...

Below follows a list that I assembled of the most crucial benchmarking errors:
1. Not having concrete goals and objectives
2. Not est...
Usage (application): Checklist of Things to Avoid

How to Avoid Subjectivity in Benchmarking

The issue about best practices is that they're subjective given that organizations operating within the same industry are highly likely to have varyin...
Usage (application): How to Correct for Environmental Factors

3 Crucial Elements for Benchmarking

Benchmarking is a continuous, systematic process for evaluating the products, services and work processes of organizations that are recognized as repr...
Usage (application): Things to Remember when Planning Benchmarking

Avoiding Cognitive Biases During Benchmarking

To discover correctly what makes a business successful one has to look at BOTH thriving AND floundering companies to spot the qualities that separate ...
Usage (application): Benchmarking Best Practice

How to Select the Benchmarking Team

One of the most important elements in the preparation phase of a benchmark is the selection of the benchmarking team.
Although benchmarking can ...
Usage (application): Benchmarking Implementation

The Benchmarking Applications and Categories

You can benchmark any function or characteristic that you can observe or measure. Typically, the main categories used in benchmarking are:
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Usage (application): What can be Benchmarked?

Avoiding Cognitive Biases During Benchmarking

During World War 2 the statistician A. Wald was assessing the vulnerability of airplanes to enemy fire. All the available data showed that some parts ...
Usage (application): Classical Example